Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-07-14
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pleasure resort
Apples are selling from wagon in Coun-
Gil Bluffs at 81 bushel.
A great many bogus nickels are in cir.
culation in the villages of the eastern
| portion of the State.
| Storm Lake has raised S75, 900 as a
starter Towards securing the Northwest
Iowa conference Seminary.
The ninth annual reunion of the old
soldiers and sailors of Story county will
be held at Nevada, August 4 and s..
A small detachment of grasshoppers,
flying about 200 feet high, passed over
Sibley the other day in southeasterly
| direction.
Andrew Fossum, a well-to-do farmer of
Allamakee county, fell from load of
hay the other day and broke his neck.
He nov spoke after filing.
An old lady inmate of the Carroll
county poor house last week made an uu-
successful attempt to commit suicide by
throwing herself in pool of water.
All the churches of Leon have united in
an arrangement for Sunday evening
services at 6 o'clock in the court house
park, in place of services in the various
churches.
A Touring mill to cost about $35, 900,
and having capacity of not less than
seventy-five barrels of -four day, is to be
built at Calliope. The citizens give a
bonus of 800
Burlington young ladies have organized
Mother Hubbard picnics, and go in droves
to the woods to enjoy the hot weather,
with no young men allowed within two
hundred yards of them.
In the vicinity of Auburn, where work
men were boring a well, at the depth of
IS feet water and gas began to flow, and
| for four days the gas came out with
whizzihg noise. Then the sand caycd in
at the bottom and stopped the hole up.
At Cedar Rapids, a prisoner who was
confined in the city Jail for being drunk,
came in contact with some bottles which
had been seized from the law breakers
and placed in the Jail corridor for safe
keeping and he passed the liquid around
among the boys who all got drunk in
jail
The Dubuque municipal system has so
| far advanced in the way of becoming
modernized that they are soon to supply
the police department with patrol wag-
on. One of the papers gravely asserts
that the Improvement will be good
thing, as the team can be used as a re-
serve team for one of the fire wagons
Allison Tribune; We hear of some
farmers in this vicinity using kerosene to
keep off the chintz bug from stealing
march on their corn. They take asprink
Ter. and sprinkle few rows around on
the outside and the result is that Mr.. c.
bug does not like the taste of the stuff
and turns back disguised. We hear of
one man buying fifteen gallons of oil in
town the other day to use in this man
ner.
A number Of country newspapers Of
Iowa came out last week printed in red
and blue ink, much to the discomfort of
the readers.
The premium list for the fourth annual
fair in Wright county, at Clarion, is out.
and is very complete. The fair will be
held September 1916.
Collector Kuhemcir has appointed Mrs.
W. c. Thompson, the widow Of the late
collector, stamp deputy at Davenport with
a salary of 5000 per year.
Jacob Gaudaur was secured for the
Keokuk regatta on the 4th, and the finan-
cial result shows a shortage of S26G34.
The expenses were $500 and the receipts
S342.
Marshalltown Times Republican,: The
worst feature of the business situation in
Marshalltown at present is the large num-
Der of people who are investing elsewhere
the money they made here.
Oscar Curnham, living near Fredericks-
burg, caught cold in one of his knee
joints about two years ago and the trou-
BILE did not leave, but fingered on from
day to day, and inflammation of the bone
set in. A doctor was called in and cut
the leg off just above the knee last week.
Messrs Hoag and Rhoads, of Mechan-
icsville shipped car load of wool to
Cedar Rapids and went there to unload
it. They piled up big load on dray,
and when both men were on the load
projection threw the sacks with the men
underneath. One had compound frac-
ture of the arm, and the other struck on
his head and did not get hurt
The jefferson Bee says that the Board
of Commissioners of the Soldiers Home,
in view of the completion of that benef-
cent institution in the not distant future,
have issued through the Secretary, Hon.
John J. Russell, a circular to the county
auditors of the State, asking them to
give the number of soldiers in the poor
house in their respective counties and the
number Of those receiving public aid
outside Of poor houses. Of course the
object is to ascertain how many inmates
each county Of the State will furnish to
this new benevolent institution. 1t is al
ready reported and believed that the new
building will not be sufficiently large in
dimensions to accommodate all those who
may wish to enter. 1t seems pity that
there should be any lack of room for these
brave heroes of war and adversely. They
belong to a generation that is. rapidly
passing "over the Jordan" and will not
be long until the entire number can be
we'll taken care of in the new and elegant
home which the State is constructing for
its unfortunate soldicry. 1t is wise and
humane bcncfactIon.
A farmer at Independence bought a
bunch Of firc-crackcrs for his boy and
threw them into tin pan in his wagon
The sun beat down upon the tin pan ard
generated enough heat to explode the
crackers. and the premature explosion
frightened several horses and caused two
runaways, besides setting fire to the hay
and blankets in the wagon. 1t was sur
prise party to the owner OF the wagon,
who didn't know the tin pan was loaded.